St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-04
DULUTH MATTERS.
Yesterdays Record of Events In
and About the Zenith City.

Yesterdays Record of Events In
and About the Zenith City.
Special to the Globe.
DULUTH, Mimi, Nov. 3.-The acct
dent that delayed the Northern Pacific
western-bOund train yesterday was
singular. A pile driver was upon a
side track waiting for wild freight to
pass. just as the freight came along
the switchman lost his head and threw
the switch open instead of closing it,
sending the freight train crashing into
the pile driver. The freight engine and
pile driver engine were both smashed,
but the pile driver escaped unhurt. The
line was not cleared for over six hours.
Mayor Sutphin was interviewed to-
day upon the subject of the Duluth cat
tie market in reference to the statement
of Yellow Medicine county farmer
that has been going the rounds of the
press. Sutphin said:
The market price for prime cattle in Du-
luth is the same as the ST. Paul market price,
with - cents per 100 pounds added for
freight There is an advantage in shipping
stock 10 Duluth, as at our stock yards no one
is charged yardage, weighing or commission,
and very few have ever been charged for
feed, as we are trying to build up trade
here and not to tear it down. have bought
at least 100 cars of stock within two years
from shippers at Fergus Falls, Alexandria
and other places, and have always paid over
ST Paul market prices, and have been glad
10 do it as il is quite a chore to go down to
ST. Paul and buy and ship out stock. All
this talk about a combination between live
stock dealers and butchers in Duluth is bosh.
In the case of the man Nyhous, Mr. Shaw,
my manager, as well as Others, offered him
the market price for his cattle, but he
refused it, and wanted his cattle
butchered We did not want to
do it on account of having a large run of
stock on hand at the time. but finally did
and had to work Sunday to make up time
lost in his work. We paid him cents a
pound for light COW hides green, cents
pound for steer hides, and ll2 cents a pound
for tallow, and charged him the usual price
"A dollar head-for killing the cattle He
then started out TO peddle the beef by the
quarter and the butchers at the West end
had him arrested. His attorney, Mr.. Shan
non came to me and / suggested that he
should paw SO as a months license as a
hawker instead OF fine of $50 per day, for
which he was liable, and this he did. This
talk that he is making is of regular daily oc
currence at all cattle points. Every man
can come and bring his stock here and sell
it. and all | can say is that | never belonged
to any ring or combination in my life and
never will There is nothing of the sort that
| know of existing in Duluth, and the man
who has started the IDEA is, in my opinion,
not only an enemy to Duluth but Willful
and malevolent liar.
Nearly every incoming train yester-
dav was behind time. The Northern
Pacific from Brainerd was six hours late
owing to wreck somewhere near that
town. The Ashland train was seven
hours late. having wasted that length of
time at Ashland to make connections
with the Wisconsin Central, that was
also delayed by asmash-up. and the linn
tod was twelve minutpS LATE
Comptroller Davis to-day gave notice
OF an assessment to defray the expense
of constructing ten new sidewalks.
Last fall man named Charles Long
was charged with theft. At the trial it
was conclusively proved that the man
was deranged by excessive drinking, but
the jury convicted him and he went to
Saltwater for two years. Judge Start,
who tried the case, was much surprised
at the verdict, and, although he was
obliged to sentence him, he told Mr..
Edison, who defended Long. that at the
expiration of six months, when the
effects of whisky were overcome, he
would endeavOr to get pardon for
Long. At the time mentioned the judge
and Mr.. Edison tried hard to get Gov.
McGill to pardon the man, who since his
incarceration has become cripple, but,
much to the surprise of the judge and
indignation of Edison, the governor re-
fused to interfere. What reason Gov.
McGill has for such a course is not
known, except it be that he considers
that he is better acquainted with the